Nemo, just log into the league and when the draft room is ready you will see a link to enter the draft. The draft room opens around 30 mins before the draft. I might put together a quick guide for the new guys.

I'm sorry guys. I'm miffed we couldn't choose the time we wanted. I've noted it for next year so we get in even earlier.

No problem Webzie. You will need to miff a whole lot more before you can even get close to my level of miffing as a Commissioner. In fact, I've taken Commissioner miffingness to new levels.

(actually you said you were miffed. Not that you did miff but you get my [STRIKE]draft[/STRIKE] drift.

Being Commissioner is usually an unappreciated task, but you always do a GREAT job, and a lot of us here DO appreciate your efforts.

Nemo, just log into the league and when the draft room is ready you will see a link to enter the draft. The draft room opens around 30 mins before the draft. I might put together a quick guide for the new guys.

Oh I can help you with that. This is the draft guide bible:

Round 1. Let Darth have whomever he wants because it makes him very happy and he is going to win the championship anyhow.

1. Test your system to ensure the draft application will work correctly. No-brainer. Requires Adobe Flash Player and most browsers are compatible. HINT: If you are particularly IT-challenged, Adobe Flash is directly integrated with Google Chrome and enabled by default (No I do not work for Google).

2. Rank your players up until 45 minutes before your draft. Very important. If you somehow lose connection during the draft, your preferred order remains intact and you'll be more likely to auto-draft a player you want. Even if you just rank 50 or 100 guys it will make your life easier. You can also use it to make sure you don't draft players you want to avoid. You can exclude them from your rankings altogether! I'm looking at you Michael Crabtree

3. Join a mock draft to practice your draft strategy. You could spend weeks doing mocks. It will allow you to see who is likely to fall where, when do the positional runs occur, where does your pet player usually go, etc. Make sure you do at least one from Yahoo so you get familiar with their draft app. And make sure it has the same number of teams as our league of course!

4. The draft order will be randomly determined approximately 30 minutes before the draft begins. Get into the draft asap and check your draft spot. You may just be able to sneak in one more mock draft at your given spot!

5. Know who is injured. Nothing worse than drafting a guy who starts the season on the PUP.

6. Check those Bye weeks. You don't want to draft your backup QB only to find out he has the same bye week as your starter. For most managers, not having too many players on the same bye week will also make your life easier when it comes to roster management. You might otherwise be forced to drop a guy you want to keep in order to field a full squad. But there are alternative strategies so I'm not to say what's right or wrong. Just don't forget them.

[STRIKE]Therefore the next best time we can draft is Saturday 27 August at 8:30pm ET.

Sorry if this causes any issues. I'm quite surprised by the lack of available draft slots from Yahoo considering it's nearly 2 weeks away. Ignore any messages about times in the league updates panel. Just click on 'My Team' and you'll see a countdown timer to the draft in your local time.

Ahhhh...week one I'll be pitted against Bezeach. All I know is that he appears to be an avid Michigan football fan, so I know he has exceptional intelligence. I want to wish him good fortune...after the first week...

I will also predict that Aurora will clobber whomever she is against in week one.

Another GIGANORMUS matchup: The league starts off with what we in Europe often call the Super Cup - the reigning playoff winner vs the reigning regular season winner - in Wreckerz vs Wolverines. Don't miss out on that one, it might be the game of the year.